A bystander was fatally shot by US Secret Service officers after a man fired on a checkpoint outside the White House. The suspect, identified as Nasire Best, started shooting toward a White House security checkpoint when Secret Service officers returned fire. No officers were injured.
US Secret Service Police officers place crime scene tape after a copper jacket of a bullet was found near the scene of a shooting close to the White House on Sunday (May 24) in Washington.
A bystander who was struck by gunfire after a man fired on a checkpoint outside the White House and was fatally shot by US Secret Service officers remained in serious but stable condition Sunday (May 24). The Secret Service said the bystander, who has not been identified, suffered a gunshot wound described as not life-threatening. It was not clear how he was shot.
The District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department said the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Nasire Best, started shooting toward a White House security checkpoint when Secret Service officers returned fire. No officers were injured, Secret Service Director Sean Curran said in a statement posted on social media.
"Our thoughts are also with the innocent bystander who was wounded during this incident," Curran said. It was the third shooting near the president in the past month, after a man stormed the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April armed with guns and knives, and Secret Service officers shot and wounded a man who fired at them earlier this month near the Washington Monument.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the suspect in Saturday's shooting had a "possible obsession with our Country's most cherished structure". He also used the shooting to promote the ballroom he is seeking to build on the site of the White House's former East Wing, saying the shooting "goes to show how important it is, for all future Presidents, to get, what will be, the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, DC".
Trump is asking Congress for US$1 billion (S$1.28 billion) for security additions for the White House campus, including the ballroom. Best had a previous run-in with law enforcement near the White House, according to District of Columbia court records. He failed to heed officers' commands to stop, claimed to be Jesus Christ and said he wanted to be arrested.
A woman who identified herself as Best's mother told The Washington Post that she learned about the shooting on social media and was in disbelief. She said her son "was never violent, regardless of what people are posting"
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